Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 24th January, revealing that Switch has once again dominated both the software and hardware tables.
Let's start with the software chart, where Switch games make up the entire top ten yet again. As we've come to expect, Momotaro Dentetsu remains in first place, selling another 92,793 physical copies this week; Ring Fit Adventure and Animal Crossing: New Horizons follow in second and third.
Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week's estimated sales, followed by total sales):
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 92,793 (1,710,394)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 36,489 (2,273,887)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 27,237 (6,580,855)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 19,239 (3,620,938)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 13,316 (4,122,643)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 11,873 (1,786,687)
- [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 11,410 (612,794)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 9,407 (3,753,205)
- [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 8,847 (3,938,093)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 7,623 (1,805,240)
It's another good week for Switch on the hardware front, too, comfortably outselling its industry rivals – although new generation systems are facing stock issues. Here are this week's figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:
- Switch – 87,385 (14,877,202)
- Switch Lite – 23,426 (3,224,391)
- PlayStation 5 – 15,312 (245,957)
- PlayStation 4 – 3,247 (7,746,690)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,036 (55,665)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 439 (1,153,006)
- Xbox Series X – 386 (25,566)
- Xbox Series S – 38 (6,685)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 16 (1,575,581)
Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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If Konami wants to do something good for once, they would release Momotaro Dentetsu internationally. It's already catching up to Ring Fit Adventure in sales despite only being released two months ago.
Konami have restructured in order to just produce exclusively Momotaro Dentetsu content. It’s all Momotaro Dentetsu now.
This is all just the calm before the storm that will be Monster Hunter.
I just need a translated Momotaro Dentetsu!
Please!!!!
Splatoon 2 in top ten, nice!! Still hoping they intend to make a sequel.
@Entrr_username It's a Japanese cultural mobile board game, not sure if that'll sell well here in the west.
Shows how stale the games industry has become when there are this many old games hitting the top 10 charts.
@Mr-Fuggles777 Or just show how uncreative and uninteresting the new games are. Having better realistic graphics and performance don't sell anymore unless the game is fun to play.
Ring Fit is just mind boggling at this point.
Also, 2021 japanese Switch sales have a chance to surpass 2020. Crazy.
@nessisonett maybe they’ll put some of their other characters in as cameos.
Just imagine Snake on a train!
@SuperCharlie78 Monster Hunter is looming over that market like an asteroid heading for a direct collision. It’s going to be huge there.
Pair that with a new Pokémon (or remake) later in the year and it’s definitely easy to see how Switch could beat 2020.
@nessisonett
"Konami is Momotaro Dentetsu?"
"Always has been."
Surprised with the success of Ring Fit that Nintendo didn't go for some DLC this month to capitalise on the new year resolutions.
It's a great success story for them regardless for a new IP.
The contrast of those jp charts and the news about Konami reorganization and how they "don't make games" is just hilarious and sad to see, because it shows how few people actually research before they post comments.
Series S sold just 38! Ha ha ha good show Microsoft where they can stick their digital only crap. PS5 digital did badly too.
I wonder how Momotaro Dentetsu is different from Billion Road...
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition sold only 2K units, Japanese people surely like to get their games in store. Wish i could get my hands in one. Its like we're in 2009 again with PSP go fiasco
To be fair to the Xbox Series X, how can it be expected to compete on ‘newness’ against a system literally called the ‘New’ 2DS LL?
The Series X will be new until it isn’t. The New 2DS will be new forever.
The New 2DS LL sold more then the xbox's. Wow.
@ok1 If Wonderswan was still on the market it would sell more....
Japan is once again Nintendoland...interesting to see where this goes
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